When "Too Hot" isn't
If you were watching commercials or flipping through program listings and saw a show called Pants Off Dance Off, what would be your reaction? Well, if you have any sexual drive at all (which pretty much means you're older than ten and not Southern Baptist), I'm going to make a wild guess and say you'd probably tune in, if for no other reason to answer the lingering question: "Pants Off Dance Off? Wait, what?!"
Here's the short answer: Pants Off Dance Off is a competition on the Fuse music network (which you probably have never heard of if you don't have satellite or digital cable) in which men and women of all sizes dance and strip to a chosen song and video. The winners from Tuesday through Friday make the Saturday show, and a winner is crowned for the week.
People were dancing around in their underwear in the commercial I saw, so I didn't really know what to expect. Since it was on Skinemax movie late at times and Desperate Housewives late others, I figured I'd see people stripping to their underwear in the show as well. I was right. Kind of. The people technically did strip to their skivvies, because whenever the dancer began to take off something that would change the TV-PG to a TV-MA, the video stopped and a "Censored" graphic covered the dancer, prodding the viewer to log on to the website to see "more".
Obviously, I went to the website. On the site I found a collection of dancers under a caption -- "Watch what you couldn't see on TV!" -- and a promise they'd be "strippin' down to the bare pixel." Given that the television show was "censored", I expected to see, well, what I couldn't on TV.
I chose one of the dancers I had already seen, and sure enough, the clip went further than on TV. However, the "bare pixels" that you'd -- okay, I -- really wanted to see were blurred out. That's right, the part that was "too hot for TV" was still censored. I thought it might have just been that particular dancer's (relative) modesty, so I watched a couple more. Yep, those were censored too. In fact, the only difference between the amount of skin I saw on that site and what I would see if I were watching an accidental streaker on America's Funniest Home Videos is the midriff. Maybe.
I hesitate to give you the link because I don't feel they deserve any additional publicity with how they're tricking people to log on to their site, but I'm sure you're still curious. Since it will take you about eight seconds to find the site yourself (and despite what I said, I couldn't blame you for wanting to), I'll save you the time.
(And yeah, I bet the show still catches on, too.)
Here's the short answer: Pants Off Dance Off is a competition on the Fuse music network (which you probably have never heard of if you don't have satellite or digital cable) in which men and women of all sizes dance and strip to a chosen song and video. The winners from Tuesday through Friday make the Saturday show, and a winner is crowned for the week.
People were dancing around in their underwear in the commercial I saw, so I didn't really know what to expect. Since it was on Skinemax movie late at times and Desperate Housewives late others, I figured I'd see people stripping to their underwear in the show as well. I was right. Kind of. The people technically did strip to their skivvies, because whenever the dancer began to take off something that would change the TV-PG to a TV-MA, the video stopped and a "Censored" graphic covered the dancer, prodding the viewer to log on to the website to see "more".
Obviously, I went to the website. On the site I found a collection of dancers under a caption -- "Watch what you couldn't see on TV!" -- and a promise they'd be "strippin' down to the bare pixel." Given that the television show was "censored", I expected to see, well, what I couldn't on TV.
I chose one of the dancers I had already seen, and sure enough, the clip went further than on TV. However, the "bare pixels" that you'd -- okay, I -- really wanted to see were blurred out. That's right, the part that was "too hot for TV" was still censored. I thought it might have just been that particular dancer's (relative) modesty, so I watched a couple more. Yep, those were censored too. In fact, the only difference between the amount of skin I saw on that site and what I would see if I were watching an accidental streaker on America's Funniest Home Videos is the midriff. Maybe.
I hesitate to give you the link because I don't feel they deserve any additional publicity with how they're tricking people to log on to their site, but I'm sure you're still curious. Since it will take you about eight seconds to find the site yourself (and despite what I said, I couldn't blame you for wanting to), I'll save you the time.
(And yeah, I bet the show still catches on, too.)